Karen Sanchez19: __________________________________ Chaos is nothing more than an illusion...
In fact, chaos is its own form of order. Though, I suppose the physicists will try to tear me apart for saying that. ___________________________________
Don't sweat it, Karen Sanchez19. They won't touch you. They're far too convinced that you've completely lost your mind.🙂
redrider63: ____________________________ In order for a person to truly reach the point where they can—and I mean truly *do* nothing at all—they must first exhaust every single possibility available to them. They have to push themselves to the absolute edge of their own capacity, out to the very fringes of this world. Only when someone has surrendered everything they possess, once the hunger of selfishness has finally devoured itself, and when everything within this nature has burned away until there is nowhere left to lean, to rest, or to hide... only then. When there are no more masks to wear, no more fires to light, no more lies to tell, and no more garments of joy or sorrow to clothe oneself in... when the hands become empty and everything they touch dissolves into the same void that consumes them... when all that remains of a human being is the rhythmic beating of a heart amidst an infinite silence... only in that moment does there flow from the soul The River of Life... the sole remaining Grace... _____________________________
Who exactly has been hypnotizing you, rider63, my boy?👋
In various dialects, certain vulgarities carry heavy weight. To call someone by this specific moniker—The Joker—is to label them exactly what they are.
"The Joker's Yelp rating" is essentially a mockery of spiritual authority. This kind of language is ubiquitous across much of the United States. Even children use it without a second thought. But things are becoming increasingly absurd: In several linguistic contexts, the term for his companion translates to "camel." It’s almost a cosmic joke, isn't it? A more accurate description would be "The Joker defecating with his camel."
The American population could be very angry about The Joker—this villainous figure. For decades, people have been forced to exist within the sphere of "The Joker defecating with his camel." It was a world defined by the prison system; a world characterized by the suppression of expression.
All the concentration camps begin in the same way. First the villains appear. The declaration of censorship follows. Then comes the resistance. Finally, the villains kill them.
The Joker is utterly deranged. Does a sane individual even bother with a Yelp rating for spiritualists? If one is truly insane, how can they claim to possess any knowledge of gurus? How can anyone claim to understand anything at all before undergoing their own awakening?
The Joker is nothing more than an April fool. This villainous figure refers to his own fraudulent spiritualism as a "prison rat" rating.
The only legitimate path toward true spirituality is through brutal honesty. Brutal honesty must be applied to every single facet of your existence. Brutal honesty toward yourself. Brutal honesty toward others. The Joker and his followers refuse to permit such brutal honesty.
Instead, they would much rather destroy your soul.
Jose Reyes recently had the misfortune of encountering this pack of predatory scavengers. There, he encountered nothing but empty minds. Jose Reyes met a brilliant, yet broken woman there. The villains had already decimated her innocent, gifted spirit:
"I simply cannot find it in me to take sides," the gifted lady sobbed in bitter desperation at the very end.
Jose Reyes was fortunate: A decent man from the mystical website was watching. His name is Noby. Noby extended a helping hand to the leader's jeopardized soul, providing salvation. Today, the mystical website serves as the leader's new home.
The villains' concentration camp continues to emit the dark smoke of mental manipulation. The Joker defecating with his camel is a mere caricature, a cartoonish phenomenon. Yet, his 500 predatory scavengers are incredibly dangerous. One should remember the lessons of "The Lion King."
------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Master "possesses" all sorts of "feelings" only as long as you are still stuck in the realm of "assumption," Karen Sanchez19. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let me offer you an even more irrational thought, Karen Sanchez19:
You claim to "assume" that a Master shouldn't "have" specific "emotions." That very "assumption" is nothing more than a glaring sign of your "ignorance" regarding the true nature and essence of an enlightened being. If you actually understood that nature and essence, Karen Sanchez19, you wouldn't be making any "assumptions" at all.
As it stands, as long as you remain ignorant of this truth, the Master could be standing on his head for all you care, but you will continue to perceive manifestations of the "dualistic world" in everything he does or says—whether those are positive or negative emotions, intentions, or thoughts. They are merely projections of your own "material consciousness." It is quite simple: you are sitting in a movie theater, projecting whatever is inside your own head onto the Master. Or onto ANYONE ELSE for that matter, Karen Sanchez19. Think about that.
It is YOU who provides the Master with a "colored" interpretation of reality, Karen Sanchez19. And that is precisely why the Master tells you exactly what he tells you.😕 🙄 😉
Karen Sanchez19: ____________________________ I suppose if you were truly in an enlightened state, you wouldn't be left with this nagging sensation that someone is trying to deceive you. ____________________________ 😎 The Master "possesses" all sorts of "feelings" right up until the moment you stop merely making assumptions, Karen Sanchez19.
Jack Harris3: __________________________________ Can I offer my own take on this? Think about a standard kitchen mixer you might have in your pantry. It usually has three speeds... let’s say enlightenment is that third, highest setting. Once you flip that switch, the mixer itself doesn't transform into something else. It had the capacity to run at that speed from the very beginning; it simply required someone to slide the toggle to the number 3. The mixer might desperately want that third gear, or perhaps it wishes it possessed it, but it cannot reach out and move its own switch, no matter how much it yearns to find a way. And if you've ever actually baked anything in your life, you know you don't just slam it into high speed immediately, or you'll end up with batter splattered all over your kitchen walls. You start slow and build momentum based on the consistency of the ingredients. But none of those external factors decide the speed for the mixer. __________________________________
Roger Hall15: ________________________________ 1. I wouldn't advise her to go through with it, because frankly, I would never dream of advising anyone one way or the other on whether to have an abortion or not. _________________________________
hiddenpuma75, you absolute gem of a Master's disciple!😁 😉
Perhaps this single point should be enough for you to finally grasp the sheer foresight of the Master. It is a point you brought upon yourself by dragging it into this "forum."
Buddha & Parsifal: ___________________________________ NOT A SINGLE SPECK OF DUST WILL FAIL TO BECOME AN ARHAT ____________________________________
Every single speck of dust is already an Arhat, hiddenpuma75. Yet, you persist in your delusions.
You dared to criticize Master John, expressing dissatisfaction with his teachings regarding the "mindful observation of our mucus-filled vessels," a method the Buddha prescribed to his naive followers. They called it Vipasati.
What more could you possibly need from that, hiddenpuma75? The Master offers you nothing but the naked truth regarding a certain "ABUSE," one that occurred two and a half millennia ago. Poor Buddha, not knowing what would become of his people or how to handle them, prescribed a pacifier of a technique just to soothe their restless searching.
First, where did he get the idea that there is such a thing as a transcendent "beyond" and that it can even be reached? If it cannot be reached, why do you obsessively pose in a Vipasati posture?
Second, if "every being is PERFECT," then what purpose do these exercises and instructions serve for that very being? To become... SOMETHING, hiddenpuma75? Is it possible to be even more perfect? Or perhaps just a little more schizophrenic?
Third, this notion of "REALIZATION"—no matter how subtly that "realization" is phrased—can only ever be the fabrication of a dense and convoluted "SELF." According to that wretched Buddha, this is the final obstacle on his path to Nirvana.
Fourth, why does the Buddha even possess the predisposition for a "PATH," hiddenpuma75? Anything that possesses a beginning and an end cannot lead to "ETERNITY." It leads only to the fatal error of imposing categories of SPACE and TIME upon the search for the OTHERWORLDLY. SPACE and TIME are merely the pillars of "material consciousness." The very things that bound you to Mother Earth.
Enough about Gautama the Gelipter. _________________________________
When delivering his sharp insights regarding the "three mastodons" and "one iguana" among the beginners, Master John doesn't even need to be painstakingly precise. He requires no special concentration whatsoever. And for what, hiddenpuma75? For the fact that they all preach your precious "Eastern Sin" from their lists. What exactly is this "Eastern Sin"? Once you clear away the heavy floods of debris, wood, and stone consisting of vulgar rhetoric, the "Eastern Sin" is nothing more than the "sin" of human "imperfection."
You must grovel before Allah just as much as you do before Brahmi. You must bow to Yahweh just as you do to Jesus's father. You aren't truly good to any God until you've laid yourself prostrate at His feet.
Abraham, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad have all been laid low. All in the same posture where blood thumps in your temples and nonsense flashes through your mind. We worship RIDICULOUSNESS, hiddenpuma75. We worship those who have conditioned our lives to be HELL ON EARTH. By labeling us "IMPERFECT."
We bow to FASCIST types who steal GOD from our eyes and from our very wombs. The GOD in whom we are "immersed," and who is "immersed" in us. Within the transparency of His and our simultaneous perfection.
It is time we realized how we have all been To Deceived, hiddenpuma75. Otherwise, we will pay a heavy price. But then again, if that is how God wills it?🙄 😎
Mr. Pes: ______________________________ What kind of passion could Siddhartha have possibly harbored if not for this relentless pursuit of "truth"? And once he finally let go of that very pursuit, he achieved his goal. Or rather—once he ceased searching entirely, he simply sat beneath a tree and truly "existed." ______________________________
Gautama Buddha: ___________________________________ "The path toward Enlightenment lies right in the middle! It's the line drawn between all opposing extremes!" ___________________________________
How much deception can one find here? How much sheer nonsense is packed into just one single UNENLIGHTENED THOUGHT?
First of all—a "PATH"? What kind of "PATH" are we talking about?
The moment you define something as a path, you have already established a START and an END. How can anyone hope to grasp ETERNITY using a concept that possesses a beginning and a conclusion, my fellow forum members?
And then there is "toward Enlightenment." What sort of "Enlightenment" is this? Are we discussing something that implies a goal, a meaning, or a specific purpose?
Does this mean that "Suchness" itself has a purpose? Does it imply that "THATNESS," or simply "WHAT IS," is drifting toward some distant destination? Who exactly was it that "DEFINED" such a destination, ladies and gentlemen? And who, pray tell, is supposed to be "pulling" toward this destination? Does that not make "WILL" a necessary component?
But whose WILL would that actually be? If it belongs to God, then that WILL must somehow exist above God Himself. If it belongs to the Destination, then that God must possess his own "Selfhood" or "empirical consciousness," even if we choose to call him God.
If God Himself possesses a "Self" or an "Ego," why on earth would His certain, humanoid nature be any harm to a man? If that's the case, then everything we believe is fundamentally flawed. After all, if God Himself is sailing toward His own America, why shouldn't we all yearn for it too?
And this "MIDDLE WAY"!? How charming. If we are looking for a "middle," look no further than the way Jack Harris3 conducts himself and lives his life. Let Gautama Buddha try to prove otherwise personally. Jack Harris3 could easily snap at him for all that "Sangha" nonsense.🙂 😠 🙏
Gautama Buddha, Master John is going to provide his response to your "BLA-BLA-BLA" remark regarding his "Challenge." Crazy child has already been "addressed."👋
Karen Sanchez19: ___________________________ You claim there is no "impulse" within an unenlightened person—much like a blind hen wandering aimlessly—but does that actually hold water? If such impulses exist, how can we say they truly "exist" if the individual hasn't reached enlightenment? How is that even possible if they lack that fundamental clarity? __________________________
Karen Sanchez19, you will find your answer within the Challenge of the Iron Glove.😉
Karen Sanchez19: ___________________________ Well, Jesus loves everything that exists... (at least according to my limited reading of the Bible ___________________________
You’re free to go digging through the Apocryphal Gospels if you like, Karen Sanchez19. But if you do, try looking for actual UNCONDITIONAL "LOVE" instead of searching for FALSHA. FALSHA is nothing more than that which refuses to grant you FULL RECOGNITION and ACCEPTANCE in this very moment. Anyone who claims to "RECOGNIZE and ACCEPT" you while simultaneously shoving the same old DIVINE conditions under your nose is simply NOT ENLIGHTENED, Karen Sanchez19. 😉
You are asking about the era preceding MASTER JOHN'S ILLUMINATION EPOCH. It is certain that Master John recognized the validity of such an inquiry. However, a more precise answer would be better suited for a private message.
Look, during his school and college years, Master John didn't pose questions about God and the universe any differently than anyone else. I suppose that’s your generation's preoccupation, Karen Sanchez19. There were no computers or internet forums back then, but there was plenty of socializing, both in the summer and the winter. You once asked the MASTER if he was "married" and if he "had children," if I recall correctly. The MASTER is indeed married and has a ten-year-old kid.😎 🙂
Jose Reyes, you say? __________________________ Where on earth do you get the MOTIVATION for this "QUESTION," hollowviper72? Where does that initial (and INITIATING) energetic impulse to act actually originate? The drive to "discern" whether something is valid? The force required to pose that very same fateful INQUIRY? We have already told you: you cannot simply devise it yourself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
hollowviper72: _____________________________ No... that is what *you* eventually said. _____________________________
You see, hollowviper72, THIS IS A KOAN. As powerful as the "CLAP OF ONE HAND."
"HOW CAN YOU CONCEIVE THE UNCONCEIVABLE," hollowviper72?
You owe the answer to YOURSELF, not to a MASTER. Where does the "INITIAL IMPULSE" come from, hollowviper72? 😕 😁 🙄
hollowviper72: ___________________________ That sounds like a typical statement from some kid who hasn't even stepped foot in a single actual academy of thought. You probably just scraped that idea from the one solitary page you managed to read before deciding you were suddenly enlightened, didn't you? ___________________________
hollowviper72, what could you possibly know about "academies of thought" when you've already exposed your own ignorance with that circus act involving a KOAN? Not even a grandmaster like GROCK could have staged something quite that ridiculous.
A TRUE MASTER does indeed carry himself like a "kid." He is DIRECT and SIMPLE. Because he understands things through firsthand experience. Because he untangles your Gordian knots with a single hand. He pulls you out of your confusion with just one word. He is Living, bright, and carefree. Just a pure kid from the streets.
Master John: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Academies" were established by those liars who viewed us as unworthy of God. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
hollowviper72: ___________________________________________ Pure nonsense, considering you haven't grasped the essence of an academy of thought at all—not to mention the fact that in Buddhism, there is no god. ______________________________________________
The "essence of an academy of thought" is defined by the principles and frameworks set down by its founders, hollowviper72. You merely study a "school," as we have clearly seen. This MASTER is dissecting the FIRST TEACHER.
God plays NO ROLE whatsoever in Master John's realizations, hollowviper72. In fact, He doesn't exist, nor has He EVER existed. The MASTER only uses a worn-out cliché to point you toward something else entirely. And that is to ensure that none of those LIARS keep you from being worthy of the universe HERE & NOW. The universe of your very own existence, from which you emerged and with which you are fused in every single vein.
Do you need a nightlight to perceive the MASTER'S philosophical thread, hollowviper72? 🙂 😕
hollowviper72: _________________________________ A man who never stops to ask himself anything will never receive an answer. But once you begin to ask, you have already embarked upon the search. ________________________________
Where exactly does the DRIVE for this "QUESTIONING" come from, hollowviper72? What is the source of that initial—and truly INITIATING—energetic impulse that compels us to act? The urge to "discern" whether something holds true. The drive to pose that very question of destiny? We have already established that you cannot simply conjure such a thing out of thin air. Not even those four orangutans on Sumatra, should they ever stumble upon the concept of "individual consciousness," could ever claim that THEY were the ones who achieved it on their own.
hollowviper72: ______________________________ And yet, I still maintain that this whole idea of a "school of learning" is utter nonsense. ______________________________
Every "school" is nothing more than a common distraction, hollowviper72. These "schools" were founded by the elites who viewed us as unworthy of God of ours. It is hardly surprising, then, that we treat our own kind—and everyone else—with such unworthiness. 🙄